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IV:16.  The permutational “power” of the computer, allows an approach to process-based work in which the adjective experimental takes on a sense closer to that which it carries in the laboratory. The time and effort involved in producing a text through procedural or chance operations by hand can be considerable. Software can be used to generate such texts relatively quickly, such that judgements may be made both concerning the results of the procedures and the procedures themselves. The implications of these judgements can then be fed back into the co-creative process. Alterations can be made both to the given texts and to the procedures used to generate the final work. All this can be done quickly enough to give rise to a fruitful feedback loop, to experiments in the creation of meaning which even a scientist might recognize as such.

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